Home plate umpire Jim Joyce, left, shakes hands with Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga while handing the lineup card on the field before the Detroit Tigers-Cleveland Indians MLB baseball game in Detroit, Thursday, June 3, 2010. Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on a disputed call at first base by Joyce on Wednesday night. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

UPDATED: 4:26 p.m.

DETROIT, Mich. -- The Tigers pounded the Indians, 12-6, today to win the series two games to one.

David Huff, in his first start since getting hit in the head on Saturday by an Alex Rodriguez line drive, lasted only three innings. He gave up five runs on six hits.

The Indians took a 6-5 lead in the fourth, but after that it was all Detroit. The Indians are 2-5 on this trip which moves on to Chicago for a three-game series starting Friday.

Roar of the Tiger: Magglio Ordonez, in the midst of a big day, put the Tigers ahead, 7-6, with an RBI double in the sixth off Hector Ambriz. Then he put them way ahead, 11-6, with a three-run homer off Tony Sipp in the seventh. Miguel Cabrera followed with a solo off Sipp to make it 12-6.

This trip hasn't been kind to Sipp, who has allowed 11 runs in three appearances covering one inning. He's allowed four homers, including a slam, two three-run homers and a solo homer.

The Tigers had 17 hits. They won despite making four errors.

Tied up: Brandon Inge pulled the Tigers into a 6-6 tie with an RBI single in the fifth off Jensen Lewis. After giving up three straight hits, Lewis pitched his way out of a first and third jam by striking out Gerald Laird and Adam Everett.

Five spot: The Indians, trailing, 5-1, scored five runs in the fourth for a 6-5 lead. Three of the runs were unearned because of errors by third baseman Brandon Inge and second baseman Carlos Guillen.

Rick Porcello hit Russell Branyan, walked Matt LaPorta and gave up bloop single to Luis Valbuena to load the bases. Lou Marson sent a bouncer to third that Inge couldn't handle as Branyan and LaPorta scored. Jason Donald followed with a bouncer to second that Guillen made a bad throw on. Donald was safe and Valbuena scored.

After Trevor Crowe flied out to left, Shin-Soo Choo doubled home Marson to make it 5-5. Donald scored the go-ahead run on Travis Hafner's ground out to second.

Early lead: The Tigers built a 5-1 lead with two runs in the second and three in the third against David Huff. Guillen hit a two-run double in the second. The Indians made it 2-1 in the third on Choo's first of two RBI doubles.

The Tigers came back in the bottom of the inning as Ryan Raburn singled home Austin Jackson and then scored on Magglio Ordonez's triple. A sacrifice fly by Miguel Cabrera completed the scoring.

Message from Bud: Commissioner Bud Selig, in a statement, did not say he would change the outcome of Wednesday's game in which first base umpire Jim Joyce's bad call with two out in the ninth cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game.

Selig did say he would review MLB's replay policy. Said Selig in the statement, "While the human element has always been an integral part of baseball, it is vital that mistakes on the field be addressed."

Pre-game notes:

Game 52: Observations from the perfect game that wasn't:

-Give points to Armando Galarraga for agreeing to take the lineup card out to home plate today to show there was no hard feelings with plate umpire Jim Joyce. Joyce, of course, cost Galarraga a perfect game Wednesday night when he called Jason Donald safe with two out in the ninth.

Donald was clearly out and Joyce admitted he blew the call.

-I was walking down the steps when Tigers officials broached the subject with Galarraga. His initial response, "Really?' But they told him it was the right thing to do. Galarraga, a good kid, said yes.

Before the game, the Tigers and Chevrolet presented Galarraga with a 2010 cherry red Corvette. When Galarraga took the lineup card out to the umpires, and handed it to Joyce, there were a few boos, but not many.

-Tiger manager Jim Leyland said MLB gave Joyce an out. They said he could take today off and another umpire would be assigned to the game. Joyce said no.

"This isn't a day to boo a bad call," said Leyland. "It's a day to cheer integrity of the umpire and to feel bad for Armando Galarraga. I feel bad for Armando, but I feel more saddened for the umpire.

"It's just not fair. Don Denkinger has probably lived with that call in the World Series (1985) forever. And he was another very good umpire."

Said Tribe first baseman Russell Branyan: "Jim Joyce has the eyes of an eagle, ice water in his veins and a lot of stones.

-More Leyland: Asked if the umpires should have huddled to get the play right, "No huddle. We're talking silly stuff."

Leyland on the game itself: "This game will never be forgotten. This game will be talked about forever even though it didn't turn out exactly perfect."

-Call from home: Galarraga talked to his mother and father after the game in Venezuela.

"My dad told me, "In my heart you threw a perfect game.' He told me to save the ball and the CD of the game."

Venezuela TV picked up the game from the seventh inning when word spread that he was throwing a perfect game.

"I only slept a couple of hours," Galarraga said. "Reporters from Venezuela were calling me all night."

Replay question: GM Dave Dombrowski thinks replay should be expanded.

"I've always felt that today's system is fine, a good step," said Dombrowski. "I now will say that we can do something for the next step. There's a very easy reason to tell you why: I don't think an umpire should have to live with that the rest of their lives. "When I saw Joyce afterward, that's not going away for a long time. When I see Don Denkinger and what's happened to him. . .I'm not saying that every call should be reviewed, but there has to be some kind of system in place that takes that burden off of him."

"That's my personal opinion," said Acta. "That's why I moved to America the Beautiful so I can have my own.

"I think it's great that we have it for home runs because every new stadium is built like a pinball machine. Other than that, no. I don't want to take human element out of the game.

"We've played baseball for long time. I don't want to turn baseball into a football game where you have to throw a flag on the field. I feel bad for Jim. Let me tell you what: Jim is what an umpire should be. If I had to pick an All-Star group of umpires to umpire every game I managed, Jim Joyce would be on it."

So why not use instant replay so a good umpire like Joyce doesn't have to live with a call like that?

"Then why don't we just grab three guys off the street on the way to the game every day and put them on the bases?" said Acta, a citizen of the United States and Dominican Republic. "That way we don't have to worry about it because anyone can miss a call and we can go look at it on the replay.

"I don't want to do that. That eliminates people's effort and due diligence to be good at what they do. Why do I have to work hard at anything I do if anything close is going to be reviewed and I'm off the hook?"

Close eye: Acta said the Indians will be watching how David Huff reacts to balls off the bat today. Huff made his first start since Saturday when he was hit above the left earn at Yankee Stadium on a line drive by Alex Rodriguez.

"I was on the conservative side from the get go," said Acta. "I said let's DL this guy and give him some time off. But the very next day he was in the dugout for the whole game like nothing happened. We've run every test possible. He's ready to go."

Acta added, "It's easier to throw a bullpen than to see a ball come off the bat again. That's what we'll be watching. We're going to be watching if he flinches or anything like that."

Quote of the day: "Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical ability of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha," from The Villains in Blue," Time, Aug. 25, 1961, as it appeared in Baseball's Greatest Quotations by Paul Dickson.

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